To say that the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) is
important legislation is an understatement.The law does much more
than merely create a new category of protected individuals to be
added to those already in existence (such as race, sex, religion,
national origin and age).The law seeks to change the very nature of
the way disabled individuals in our society are perceived.By
forcing employers to focus on an individual's abilities rather
than his or her limitations, the Act, in effect, forces all of us
to ignore what may have been, at one time, major impediments to
employment.
Title III of the ADA prohibits discrimination in public
accommodations and is dealt with in a separate booklet in this
series.Additionally, this booklet does not attempt to address the
interaction of the ADA with state workers' compensation laws or
the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993.This booklet, covering
only Title I of the ADA and the ADA Amendments Act of 2008, is
intended to
